Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases, particularly those incident to women.

  • Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799.
Date:
1845
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    savin ancl ergot, seem to exert a direct stimulant effect on the muscular tissue of the uterus, hence both have been employed, either as emmena- gogues, or to arrest atonic hsemorrh^gp of the TXT organ. We need scarcely.' add,” continues the Doctor, “ that no judicious practitioner will ad- minister either remedy in plethoric states of the system, or whenever there is any tendency to in- flammatory excitement.” As there may be a polypus within the uterine cavity, when nothing short of an operation will effect a cure, it is impossible not to agree with Professor Simpson of Edinburgh, who tells us* that in every case of obstinate leucorrlicea, or menorrhagia, it is the imperative duty of the prac- titioner to examine, f “ in order that he may ascertain the pathological state of the uterus, which he has in reality to treat.” Polypus may exist at the fundus, and the menorrhagia thereby * Dr. Tweedie’s Library of Medicine, vol. iv., p. 337. + Young practitioners, in particular, are advised to lay it down as a rule, never to examine a patient, without the •presence of a